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Point Reyes National Seashore
Park Wavelengths
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Park Wavelengths is a bi-weekly email informing subscribers about events, closures, natural history, and cultural history at Point Reyes. If you would like to subscribe to Park Wavelengths, please email us. Please include "Would like to subscribe to Park Wavelengths" in the subject field and include your email address in the message.
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November 19, 2008
The new moon arrives on Thanksgiving Day with some extreme low daylight tides:
| Monday, November 24 |
3:04 pm |
-0.2 feet |
| Tuesday, November 25 |
3:45 pm |
-0.5 feet |
| Wednesday, November 26 |
4:19 pm |
-0.6 feet |
Puma, Cougar, Mountain Lion, this animal is the biggest neighbor on the block. Various colors - greyish, tawny red, yellow brown these solitary cats are rarely seen, resting in trees, traveling and being most active at night. They harvest about one deer per week and cover the remains of their meal with branches and leaves. Like domestic cats they bury their fur filled scat. They breed about every two or three years and the population appears to be rising due to the abundance of deer and a ban on sport hunting in 1993.
Popping sounds in the early morning? Duck hunters are out over portions of Tomales Bay, especially in the early mornings.
The weather cycle of heat and moisture has been fruitful for mushrooms. Marin County Open Space rangers lead a Mushroom Walk at Tomales Bay State Park from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 26. Meet at the Jepson Trailhead, just south of the park entrance (on Pierce Point Road).
Reminder: The 1913 era Marconi Wireless transmitting station at the Marconi Conference Center State Historic park off Highway 1 in the town of Marshall is open to the public this Saturday, November 22 and operators will be sending messages via Morse code. The station logs here record an important moment from December 7, 1941 - "Air Raid Pearl Harbor This is no drill commence war plan 23 against Japan". This message was the first transmission received in the continental US of this tragic time. Complete information on the open house is at
Park visitor centers will close early on Thanksgiving Day at 2:00 p.m.
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Did You Know?
California could see an increase of 50 percent or more in the occurrence of large wildfires in the 21st century due to global warming and its consequences.
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Last Updated: November 21, 2008 at 15:16 EST |
